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To do so, socio-economic pathways are identified and their implications for energy, land, water and other natural resources are projected by the model, subject to resource availability and quality. Unintended side effects such as emissions to air, water and soils, climatic change, and depletion and degradation of remaining stocks (fossil fuels, forests) are calculated, and are taken into account when moving out into the future. | To do so, socio-economic pathways are identified and their implications for energy, land, water and other natural resources are projected by the model, subject to resource availability and quality. Unintended side effects such as emissions to air, water and soils, climatic change, and depletion and degradation of remaining stocks (fossil fuels, forests) are calculated, and are taken into account when moving out into the future. | ||
Traditionally, IMAGE has strived to be comprehensive in terms of human activities, sectors and environmental problems and where and how these are connected through common drivers, through mutual impacts and through synergy and trade-off. In this sense IMAGE differs from other | Traditionally, IMAGE has strived to be comprehensive in terms of human activities, sectors and environmental problems and where and how these are connected through common drivers, through mutual impacts and through synergy and trade-off. In this sense IMAGE differs from other IAM models, that are for the most part rooted in the energy-economy-climate nexus and have expanded their coverage only more recently to issues of land-use and land-cover change, water availability and other broader sustainable development issues. | ||
As described in [[Scenario drivers]], future pathways or scenarios depend critically on assumed projections of key driving forces. Hence all results can only be understood and interpreted properly in the context of the assumed future environment in which they unfold. | As described in [[Scenario drivers]], future pathways or scenarios depend critically on assumed projections of key driving forces. Hence all results can only be understood and interpreted properly in the context of the assumed future environment in which they unfold. | ||
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[[File:004s img13.png|thumb|600px|left|alt=IMAGE framework scheme|link=An overview of the IMAGE framework and its components]] | |||
[[Figure 1.2 IMAGE 3.0 diagram. All dark-colored boxes also refer to a separate chapter a in this book except for the impacts surrounded by dashed lines, they are computed by models in the box “Earth System” and just briefly listed in the Introduction to Impacts.]] | [[Figure 1.2 IMAGE 3.0 diagram. All dark-colored boxes also refer to a separate chapter a in this book except for the impacts surrounded by dashed lines, they are computed by models in the box “Earth System” and just briefly listed in the Introduction to Impacts.]] | ||
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